2015高考英语模拟卷及答案解析(1)

高考英语模拟（一）原创难度：很大

一．单项选择（10）

1.（2014重庆市重庆一中高三下学期第一次月考，28）Health experts believe that even a little exercise is _____ better than _____at all.

A. quite; none

B. rather; none

C. fairly; nothing

D. far; nothing

2.（2014重庆市名校联盟高三下学期联合考试，1）The world has become _____ much smaller place as

a result of the revolution in _____ information technology over the years.

A. a; the

B. the; the

C. a; /

D. the; /

3.（2014山东省潍坊市高三3月模拟，6）—That must have been a terrible experience.

—Yeah. I in the damaged car, unable to move.

A. was stuck

B. have been stuck

C. am stuck

D. had been stuck.

4.（2014浙江省温州十校联合体高三上学期期末考试，30）Students hold different opinions towards the news ______ the point value of English ____________ for Gaokao College Entrance Examination.

A. that; decreased

B. of; having decreased

C. that; decreasing

D. of; to be decreased

5. （2011湖北，22）Giving up my job to go back to full-time education was a big_______, but now I know it was the best decision I ever made.

A. project

B. commitment

C. competition

D. ambition

6.（2011湖北，24）An unhappy childhood may have some negative effects on a person?s character; however, they are not always_______.

A. practical

B. avoidable

C. permanent

D. beneficial

7.（2011湖北，27）The minister said, “We are ready for discussions with any legal parties, but we?ll never_______ with criminals.”

A. negotiate

B. quarrel

C. argue

D. consult

8.（2009江西，26）The house I grew up_______has been taken down and replaced by an office building.

A. in it

B. in

C. in that

D. in which

9.（2010北京，32）Part of the reason Charles Dickens loved his own novel, David Copperfield,

was_______ it was rather closely modeled on his own life.

A. what

B. that

C. why

D. whether

10.（2013湖北，21,1分）Poetry written from the of the urban youth tends to reveal their anxiety over a lack of sense of belonging.

A. perspective

B. priority

C. participation

D. privilege

二．完形填空（30）

（2014北京市海淀区高三年级第一学期期末）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Music to My Ears

Robby was 10 for his first piano lesson in my class. Much as he tried, he __11__ even the basic rhythm. However, he dutifully reviewed the pieces that I required.

Over the months he tried and tried while I __12__ and encouraged him. At the end of each lesson he' d always say, " My mom' s going to hear me play some day." __13__ it seemed hopeless.

I only knew his mother from a __14__as she waited in her aged car to pick him up. Then one day Robby stopped coming. I was secretly __15__ that he stopped because of his lack of ability.

Weeks later I informed the students, including Robby, of the coming recital（独奏）. To my __16__, Robby asked me if he could be included. I told him he really did not qualify because he had __17__ out. He said his mom had been sick and unable to take him to lessons but he was still _18__ .

“I' ve just got to play!" he __19__. Something inside me let me allow him to.

Then came the recital night. The gym was __20__ with parents. I put Robby up __21__, thinking that I could save his poor performance through my “curtain closer（谢幕）.”

The recital went off smoothly. Then Robby came up on stage. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair was

__22__. " Why didn' t his mother at least make him comb his hair for this special night?" I thought.

Robby pulled out the piano bench and began. I was not __23__ for what I heard next. His fingers were

__24__ on the keys. Never had I heard Mozart played so well by people of his age. After he ended, everyone was __25__ their feet in wild applause.

In __26__ I ran up on stage and put my arms around Robby. " I've never heard you play like that, Robby! How did you __27__ it?"

Robby explained, " Well, Miss Hondorf…remember I told you my mom was sick? …__28__ she had cancer and passed away yesterday. She was born deaf, so tonight she could hear me play in heaven. I wanted to make it special."

There wasn?t a __29_ eye in the house. That night I felt he was the teacher and I was the pupil, for it was he who taught me the meaning of perseverance and __30__.

11. A. lacked B. had C. showed D. got

12. A. listened B. learned C. checked D. played

13. A. And B. But C. So D. Or

14. A. conversation B. performance C. distance D. picture

15. A. guilty B. sad C. anxious D. glad

16. A. relief B. surprise C. pleasure D. satisfaction

17. A. stepped B. worn C. run D. dropped

18. A. acting B. performing C. practicing D. recording

19. A. insisted B. suggested C. complained D. threatened

20. A. lined B. packed C. piled D. covered

21. A. least B. most C. first D. last

22. A. messy B. cool C. neat D. dull

23. A. eager B. concerned C. prepared D. grateful

24. A. hesitating B. dancing C. touching D. crawling

25. A. over B. under C. in D. on

26. A. chaos B. tears C. silence D. return

27. A. find B. feel C. make D. like

28. A. Gradually B. Suddenly C. Frequently D. Actually

29. A. dry B. curious C. bright D. wet

30. A. regret B. talent C. love D. courage

三．阅读理解（40）

A

Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.

The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn?t become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around.

But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren?t going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modern road design.

In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road—a base layer(层) of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same time, metal hubs(the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre(充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967,

sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads(柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.

31. What might explain why transport wheels didn?t become popular for some time?

A. Few knew how to use transport wheels.

B. Humans carried farming tools just as well.

C. Animals were a good means of transport.

D. The existence of transport wheels was not known.

32. What do we know about road design from the passage?

A. It was easier than wheel design.

B. It improved after big changes in vehicle design.

C. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles.

D. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop.

33. How is the last paragraph mainly developed?

A. By giving examples.

B. By making comparisons.

C. By following time order.

D. By making classifications.

34. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The beginning of road design.

B. The development of transport wheels.

C. The history of public transport.

D. The invention of fast-moving vehicles.

B

Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩) and pumping blood around their bodies,compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: “Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.”

The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, “The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed w hen the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don?t see—and guide whether we see fear.”

To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person?s feeling of fear.

“We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain…speak?to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear,” Dr Garfinkel said.

“We hope that by increasing our understandi ng about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.”

35. What is the finding of the study?

A. O ne?s heart affects how he feels fear.

B. Fear is a result of one?s relaxed heartbeat.

C. Fear has something to do with one?s health.

D. One?s fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

36. The study was carried out by analyzing.

A. volunteers? heartbeat s when they saw terrible pictures

B. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

C. volunteers? reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

37. Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mechanism” in Paragraph 6?

A. Order.

B. System.

C. Machine.

D. Treatment.

38. This study may contribute to .

A. treating anxiety and stress better

B. explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety

C. finding the key to the heart-brain communication

D. understanding different fears in our hearts and heads

C

（2013江苏卷，C, 8分）

If a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends.

Nitrogen(氮) dissolved(溶解) in his blood is suddenly liberated

by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles(气

泡) accumulate in a joint, is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the

name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain, the

consequence can be death.

Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression(减压) sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs. That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil(化石) bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.

Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world?s natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen(标本) showed evidence of that sort of injury.

If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly—and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.

Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator(捕食动物) such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark-and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey(猎物) as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result. 39. Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?

A. A twisted body.

B. A gradual decrease in blood supply.

C. A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.

D. A drop in blood pressure.

40. The purpose of Rothschild?s study is to see.

A. how often ichthyosaurs caught the bends

B. how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompression

C. why ichthyosaurs bent their bodies

D. when ichthyosaurs broke their bones

41. Rothschild?s finding stated in Paragraph 4.

A. confirmed his assumption

B. speeded up his research process

C. disagreed with his assumption

D. changed his research objectives

42. Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs.

A. failed to evolve an anti-decompression means

B. gradually developed measures against the bends

C. died out because of large sharks and crocodiles

D. evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost it

D

Life on Earth is wiped out every 27 million years and we have about 16 million years left until the next extinction, according to scientists.

Research into so-called…extinction events? for our planet over the past 500 million years—twice as long as any previous studies—has proved that they crop up with time regularity. Scientists from the University of Kansas and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC are 99 percent confident that there are extinctions every 27 million years.

In the 1980s scientists believed that Earth?s regular extinctions could be the result of a distant darktwin of the Sun, called Nemesis. The theory was that Nemesis crashed through the Oort cloud every 27 million years and sent a shower of comets in our direction.

The Oort cloud is a vast belt of dust and ice that is believed to lie around one light year from the Sun and is the origin of many of the comets that pass through our solar system.

But now scientists claim that the regularity of the mass extinctions actually proves the Nemesis theory may not be correct because its orbit would have changed over time as it interacted with other stars. “Fossil data, which motivated the idea of Nemesis, now isn?t favor of it,” say the researchers.

The last extinction event saw 10 percent of the Earth?s inhabitants wiped out. This means there is around 16 million years until the next event takes place, although the graph shows that occasionally the event takes place up to 10 million years early.

Asteroids (小行星)crashing into the Earth are commonly believed to be one of the main reasons behind mass extinctions like that suffered by the dinosaurs—the Cretaceous-Tertiary(KT)extinction. The extinction wiped out more than half of all species on the planet clearing the way for mammals to become the dominant species on Earth. The extinction was caused by a massive asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in Mexico. The asteroid, which was around 15 kilometres wide, is believed to have hit Earth with a force one billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima(广岛).

43. The last extinction probably took place______.

A. 27 million years ago

B. 16 million years ago

C. 11 million years ago

D. 500 million years ago

44. What does the“twin”(underlined in Para. 3)mean?

A. It is also necessary for the earth.

B. It is similar to the sun.

C. It is very near to the earth.

D. It gives off light like the sun.

45. The dinosaurs died out many years ago mainly because of_____.

A. the Nemesis

B. an asteroid

C. the Oort cloud

D. the sun

46. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The last extinction wiped out 10 percent of the Earth?s mammals.

B. “Fossil data” strongly supports the Nemesis theory now.

C. Occasionally the extinction happens every 17 million years according to the graph.

D. The Oort cloud lies about one light year from the earth.

E

（2014浙江省温州十校联合体高三上学期期末考试，D）

I was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a complaint about our way to deal with an old bush which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters to the local paper, even to a national toprotest about our projected by-pass to her village, and, looking at a map, the route was nowhere near where she lived and it wasn?t as if the area was attractive. I was more than puzzled, I was intrigued (好奇

的). I wanted to know what it was that motivated her. So it was that I found myself knocking on a cottage door, being received by Mary Smith and then being taken for a walk to the woods.

“I?ve always loved this place”, she said, “it has a lot of memories for me, and for others. We all used it. They called it …Lovers lane?. It?s not much of a lane, and it doesn?t go anywhere important, but that?s why we all came here. To be away from people, to be by ourselves.” She added.

It was indeed pleasant that day and the songs of many birds could be heard. Squirrels gazed from the branches, quite bold in their movements, obviously few people passed this way and they had nothing to fear. I could imagine the noise of vehicles passing through these peaceful woods when the by-pass was built, so I felt that she probably had something there but as I hold strong opinions about the needs of the community over-riding the opinions of private individuals, I said nothing. The village was quite a distant and dangerous place because of the traffic especially for old people and children, their safety was more

im portant to me than an old woman?s whims (怪念头).

“Take this tree”, she said pausing after a short while. “To you it is just that, a tree. Not unlike many others here”. She gently touched the bark. “Look here, under this branch, what can you see?”

“It looks as if someone has done a bit of carving with a knife” I said after a cursory (草率的) inspection.

“Yes, that?s what it is!” she said softly. “There are letters and a lover?s heart”.

I looked again, this time more carefully. The heart was still there and there was an arrow through it. The letters on one side were indistinct, but on the other an …R? was clearly visible with what looked like an …I? after it. “Some budding romance?” I asked, “Did you know who they were?”

“Oh yes, I knew them”, said Mary Smith, “it says RH loves MS”.

After a pause, she went on … “He had a penknife and I helped him to carve my initials. We were very much in love, but he was going away, and could not tell me what he was involved in the army. I had guessed of course. It was the last evening we ever spent together, because he went away the next day, back to his Unit.”

Mary Smith was quiet for a while, then she sobbed, “His mother showed me the telegram. …Sergeant R Holmes ... Killed in action in the invasion of France. ?”

I realized that I could be getting out of my depth, and longed to be in my office, away from here and this old lady, snug, and with a cup of tea in my hand.

There was a further pause. Mary Smith gently touched the wounded tree, just as she would have caressed him. “And now they want to take our tree away from me.” Another quiet sob, then she turned to me. “I was young and pretty then, I could have had anybody, I wasn?t always the old woman you see here now. I could have had everything I wanted in life, a lovely man, healt h and a future to look forwards to”.

She paused again and looked around. The breeze gently moved through the leaves with a sighing sound. “There were others, of course, but not a patch on my Robin!” she said strongly. “And now I have nothing - except the memories this tree holds. If only I could get my hands on that awful man who writes in the paper about the value of the road they are going to build where we are standing now, I would tell him. Has he never loved, has he never lived, does he not know anything about memories? We were not the only ones, you know, I still meet some who came here as Robin and I did. Yes, I would tell him!”

I turned away, sick at heart.

47. Why was the by-pass to Mary Smith?s village to be built through these woods?

A. The community wanted to explore the beauty of the woods as a way of tourism.

B. Many people passed these woods causing heavy traffic jam.

C. The traffic was inconvenient making the village a dangerous place to live in.

D. The village was quite far away and its economy needed improving.

48. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?

A. He wanted to get away from Mary Smith and have some tea.

B. He was quite willing to talk with Mary Smith for a long time.

C. He was deeply touched by the story and can not get out of it.

D. He felt disgusted about Mary Smith?s statement of her past life.

49. What can we learn from the last three paragraphs?

A. Mary Smith?s story was the only example witnessed by the woods.

B. Mary Smith regretted not having married a lovely man.

C. Mary Smith now has nothing- except the memories this tree holds.

D. The wounded tree symbolized Mary Smith?s past memories.

50. What?s the purpose of this passage?

A. To encourage the public to protect the environment.

B. To introduce an affecting story and show sympathy to poor lovers.

C. To criticize the harmful effects caused by the wars.

D. To state that community?s needs should outweigh individual needs.

四．补全对话（10）

（2014四川省成都市高中毕业班第一次诊断性检测）

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项多余选项。

A: Can' t you do something about the service

in your hotel, manager?

B: 51

A: My breakfast, that' s the problem

B: Yes?

A: I ordered a breakfast from room service half an hour ago.

B: Yes?

A: I' ve phoned room service three times, but my breakfast still hasn' t come.

B: 52 Surely, you are angry.

A: I' ve got a meeting at nine. And now it seems I' ll have to go there without breakfast.

B: Sorry, madam. You order ed breakfast half an hour ago and you' ve phoned three times since then

A: 53

B: You should have received your breakfast no later than five or ten minutes after you' d ordered it.

A: 54

B: 1' ll work into this and make sure that the breakfast is sent to you immediately. Full English breakfast, was it?

A: Yes. Full English breakfast.

B: 55

A: Thanks.

五．短文改错（15）

（2014山西省太原市高三年级模拟一）

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有

10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。

修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起) 不计分。

More and more foreigners like to come to China. Last Friday our school was invited a foreign teacher in our city give a class to the students of Senior Grade Two. We found his class interested. I learned a lot from him. The teacher had a free talk to us with easy English. He spoke slow so that we could understand him well. Sometimes he repeated what we don?t understand. My classmates were all active in the class. To his joy, I understood everything the teacher said. And I was able to ask question in English. This class encouraged me very much. I?m sure that until we keep on practising, it will be easy for us to learn speaking English well.六．阅读表达（10）

（2014四川省成都市高中毕业班第二次诊断性检测）

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到相应的位置上(请注意每题词数要求) 。

I ordered a new consumer product on New Year?s Day. The order was so e xciting that I felt it was going to enable me to stay organized and stylish. Then I went to the store and made the purchase. They made it pretty difficult because of a new process that had just been put in place. I went to the store with my cash in hand hoping to just give it to someone to get my new product, but I had to work pretty hard to get someone to let me buy it.

Two weeks later, a new accessory (附件）became available for my product. I decided to go

and procure this new accessory on my birthday. However, they didn?t have any and nobody could answer my questions, and they only had a number system before you could talk to anyone. So I spent an hour of my birthday sitting around waiting to be told that I couldn?t be helped. I?m a customer that just wanted to buy the product, and then when 1 wanted to keep giving them money for my shiny new product, they still weren?t interested

The only way I was told to get what I needed was to call someone and they could help.

I knew it would be an experience that would require much patience, so I waited a week and a half to make that call. Today was the day. I was also reminded today that sometimes things would just be comically bad from beginning to end.

After two specialists and one hour and twelve minutes, I got the information I needed.

This t errible experience isn?t quite over yet, but it?s definitely reached the comical stage. So I?m laughing and thinking about what lesson I should learn from this situation: comical

56. Why did the purchase become hard for the writer? (Within 8 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

57. What does the underlined word “procure” mean? (1 word)

____________________________________________________________________________

58. What did the writer have to do to get the accessory? (Within 10 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

59. How did the writer find his experience? (1 word)

____________________________________________________________________________

60. What would you do if you were in the writer?s situation? (Within 20 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

七．书面表达（35）

（2014四川省成都市高中毕业班第二次诊断性检测）

假设你叫王平。为响应国家厉行节约的号召，请你以“厉行节约——为资源、为环保” 为题，向某英语报社编辑写信，表达你对厉行节约的看法。该英文信应包括以下内容：

1. 节约与资源的关系；

2. 节约与环保的关系；

3. 举例说明中学生该如何厉行节约；

4. 倡导社会保持节约的优良传统。

注意: 1. 词数: 120字左右；2. 全文不得体现出人的真实姓名

高考英语模拟（一）原创答案解析

[答案] 1.B

[解析] 1.句意：健康专家们认为即使是很少的体育锻炼也要比一点没有好。第一个空修饰比较级better，而quite, fairly不能修饰比较级，排除A、C两项；第二个空是代词，即no exercise，no +名词=none，所以答案为B项。

[答案] 2.C

[解析] 2.句意：由于这些年来信息技术方面的革命，我们这个世界变成了一个小很多的地方。第一个空考查可数名词单数与不定冠词两项表示泛指意思，即：一个……地方。第二个空后的information technology是抽象不可数名词，前面不能加冠词。故选C项。

[答案] 3.A

[解析] 3.句意：—那一定是一次非常糟糕的经历。—是啊，我被困在那辆被撞坏的车里，不能动弹。考查动词时态和语态。根据对话的语境和题干中的must have been可知此处描述的是过去某个时间发生的事情，应该用一般过去时的被动语态，故选A项。

[答案] 4.D

[解析] 4.考查介词和非谓语动词。句意：学生对于英语在高考中的分值下降的消息持有不同的观点。第一空the news of…表示“……的消息” ；第二空用动词不定式短语作为后置定语，修饰English，表将要。

[答案] 5.B

[解析] 5.句意：放弃自己的工作，回到学校接受全日制的教育，这是一项很大的投入，但现在我知道了，这是我作出的最好的决定。考查名词辨析。四个名词选项的主要含义：A“方案，项目，工程”，B“承诺，投入，花费”，C“竞争，竞赛”，D“雄心，野心”。与句中的decision 呼应，本空选B表示“承诺”。

[答案] 6.C

[解析] 6.句意：不快乐的童年对于一个人的性格可能有负面影响，但是这些负面影响并不总是持久的。考查形容词辨析。四个形容词选项的含义：A“实用的，实际的”，B“可避免的”，C“永久的，固定的”，D“有益的，有利的”。从语境的连贯判断选C表示“永久的”。

[答案] 7.A

[解析] 7.句意：这位部长说：“我们准备与任何合法的政党进行讨论，但我们永远不会与罪犯谈判。”考查动词辨析。与前面的ready for discussions呼应，这里用negotiate表示“协商；谈判”。

[答案] 8.B

[解析] 8.句意：那座我在里面长大的房子已经被拆掉，取而代之的是一座办公大楼。此题考查定语从句。从句中的谓语动词为不及物动词短语，省去的关系代词that/which在定语从句中作介词in的宾语，in the house在定语从句中作地点状语。

[答案] 9.B

[解析] 9.句意：查尔斯·狄更斯喜爱他自己的小说《大卫·科波菲尔》的部分原因是这本书几乎是以他自己的生活为原型创作的。本题考查表语从句。设空处需要的是表语从句的引导词，而表语从句it was rather closely modeled on his own life结构很完整，意义表达清晰，不缺任何成分，故用that 引导。

[答案] 10.A

[解析] 10.句意: 从城市年轻人的视角写出来的诗歌往往反映出他们对缺乏归属感的焦虑。考查名词辨析。perspective透视, 视角; priority优先; participation参与; privilege特权。from the perspective of the urban youth从城市年轻人的视角, A项符合语境。

36. A 37. A 38. B 39. C 40. D 41. B 42. D 43. C 44. A 45. B 46.

D 47. A 48. C 49. B 50. D 51. B 52. C 53. D 54. A 55. C

解析：

[语篇解读]本文记叙文，题材为个人经历类。一个天赋不高的孩子Rubby，为了满足罹患癌症母亲的愿望，不断地练习钢琴，终于在母亲病逝的第二天弹出了令作者和所有听众潸然泪下的美妙琴声，这让作者体会到了毅力和爱的意义。

36. A Robby虽然练习了，但是缺乏基本的音律感。根据句意，结合40空后的his lack of ability 可知答案为A项。

37. A 几个月以来，他一直在努力练琴，作为老师一定是仔细聆听并给予鼓励，故选A。

38. B 上文说妈妈想在某一天听他演奏，空格后讲这似乎是毫无希望的，故此处上下文进行了转折，所以选B。

39. C 下文提到他妈妈开车接他，可推断是从远处看。

40. D Robby不来了，由于上文提到他缺乏音律，老师觉得少一个差学生是一件高兴的事情。

41. B 几周后，Robby主动要求参加独奏，这让我很吃惊。A 让某人长出一口气；C 令某人高兴的是；D 令某人满意的是。

42. D 句意：我告诉他他没有资格参加，因为他已经退学了。drop out 退出，退学；step out 走出去；wear out 穿破，疲惫；run out 被用完。

43. C 句意：Robby说他妈妈病了，不能送他上学，但他仍然在坚持练习。从下文演出的成功可以知道，他进行了大量练习。

44. A insist坚持；suggest建议；complain 抱怨；threaten 威胁。根据句意Robby 坚持要参加。

45. B 句意：体育馆挤满了来看比赛的父母。be packed with挤满，有大量……; be lined with 排列有…..; be piled with 堆满了……; be covered with被……覆盖。

46. D 根据下文Robby表演之后我要谢幕，那么Robby应是最后一个出场。

47. A 上文说Robby的衣服皱巴巴的，下文说他母亲没给梳头发，由此可知答案。messy凌乱的；cool凉爽的，时髦的；neat整洁的；dull沉闷的，枯燥的。

48. C Robby缺乏音乐感，而且辍学很久，所以作者对他的演出不看好，而下文他的表现让人吃惊，由此可知选C：我没有想到会听到接下来的表演。eager渴望的，想要的；concerned 担忧的；prepared 准备好的；grateful感激的。

49. B 由下文可知他的表演很成功，所以选B：他的指尖在琴键上跳舞。hesitate 犹豫；dance 跳舞；touch 触摸；crawl爬行。

50. D 根据语境可知观众们站起来为他鼓掌。over在……上方，遍及；under在……下方；in在……里面；on靠……支撑，on one?s feet站着。

51. B 由语境可知，孩子的表现让作者出乎意料，甚为感动，所以选B：满含眼泪，走上舞台。

52. C make it固定短语：成功。

53. D gradually逐渐地；suddenly突然；frequently 频繁地；actually事实上，实际上。根据语境知，他告诉了作者他母亲去世的事实。

54. A 孩子的经历、坚持和对母亲的爱让所有人都为之动容，所以大家都哭了，故选A。

55. C Robby坚持不懈地练习钢琴，正是为了完成生病母亲的心愿，由此可以看出他对母亲的爱，故选C。

A

64-67 CDCB

解析：

[语篇解读]本文为说明文, 题材为社会生活类, 主要介绍了车轮的历史演变。

64. C细节理解题。根据第二段中最后一句话可知大概由于动物当时能很好地运输农具和人, 车轮在一段时间内并不流行, 故选C项。

65. D推理判断题。第三段最后一句话提到在现代道路设计出现之前车轮及车辆设计没有发生重大的变化, 第四段中又提到在坚固和耐用的路面出现之后不久充气轮胎就诞生了。由此可推断路况的改善是车轮设计的发展的先决条件, 故选D项。

66. C逻辑结构题。根据In the mid-1700s, in the 1820s, At around the same time, followed by... in 1846, in 1967, sixty years after可知最后一段主要以时间顺序展开写作, 故选C项。

67. B主旨大意题。文章第一段介绍了车轮的诞生, 接下来介绍了车轮的发展, 故选B项。B

47-50 ACBA

解析：

[语篇解读]本文为说明文, 题材为科普知识。文章介绍了恐惧与心脏之间的关系, 尤其是心脏在收缩时人们对恐惧的反应。

47. A细节理解题。根据文章第二段第一句可知A项正确, 心脏影响人们对恐惧的反应。

48. C细节理解题。根据文章第四、五段可知C项正确。

49. B词义猜测题。句意: 我们已经发现了一个重要的, 通过它心脏和大脑可以对话从而改变我们的感觉并减少恐惧。可以猜测出此词应为“系统”, 故选B。

50. A细节理解题。根据文章最后一段可知A项正确。

C

61-64 ABCA

解析：

[语篇解读]本文是一篇说明文, 题材为科普知识与现代技术。鱼龙是从大陆迁往海洋的爬行动物, 有可能因上浮过快而患减压病, 是鱼龙失去进化能力了吗? 欲知详情, 请读堪萨斯大学的布鲁斯·罗斯采尔德对鱼龙在一亿五千万年来如何应对减压问题的研究。

61. A细节理解题。从文章第二段信息And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs. That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. 可知, 患有减压病可从骨骼上看出来, 故选A。

62. B推理判断题。从第三段信息What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. 可推测出, 布鲁斯·罗斯采尔德和他的同事们走遍了世界各地的自然历史博物馆, 目的就是为了弄清遨游在大洋中的鱼龙一亿五千万年中是如何应对减压这一问题的。故选B。

63. C细节理解题。由第四段可知, 在开始研究时假定化石越年轻, 有减压病症状的骨骼就会越少, 因为它们逐步进化, 形成了对抗减压病的机能, 然而情况完全相反, 这让他非常吃惊。Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. 就是关键的信息点。故选C。

64. A推理判断题。第五段第一句表明: 如果鱼龙的确曾进化得到了一种抗减压病的机能, 那么这种进化一定会发展很快。但是, 最为奇特的是, 他们后来却失去了这一机能。因此布鲁斯·罗斯采尔德可能得出结论: 鱼龙进化没有得到一种抗减压病机能。故选A。

D

CBBC

解析：

[语篇解读]科学家称, 地球上的生命每隔2700万年就会被灭绝一次, 我们到下一次大灭绝之前还有约1600万年的时间。

1. C推理判断题。根据文意可知, 研究发现每27 million年发生一次“灭绝事件”, 现在距离下次灭绝还有16 million年, 也就是说最后一次灭绝可能发生于11 million年前。

2. B词义猜测题。twin意为“双胞胎之一, 一对相像的事物之一”, 由此可知答案为B项, 根据distant和dark可排除C和D项, A项文中并未提到。

3. B细节理解题。根据最后一段可知, 恐龙是在KT extinction中灭绝的, 而这正是由撞击地球的小行星引起的, 故答案为B项。

4. C推理判断题。根据倒数第二段the graph shows that occasionally the event takes place up to 10 million years early. 可知, 有时大灭绝会提前10 million years, 也就是说隔27-10=17 million years发生一次。

[温馨提示]crop up 出现, 发生Oort cloud奥尔特云, 又译欧特云, 是一个假设包围着太阳系的球体云团, 布满着很多不活跃的彗星。Nemesis 涅墨西斯星球, 以希腊复仇女神的名字命名的恒星。

[长难句分析]But now scientists claim that the regularity of the mass extinctions actually proves the Nemesis theory may not be correct because its orbit would have changed over time as it interacted with other stars.

简析: 本句中含有多个从句, that引导宾语从句, proves后也为宾语从句, 省略了引导词that, because引导原因状语从句, as引导时间状语从句。

译文: 然而现在科学家称大灭绝的周期性实际上证明涅墨西斯星球理论可能是错误的, 因为在它和其他星球的相互作用时, 它的运行轨迹会发生改变。

E

76. C 77. C 78. B 79. C

解析：

【文章大意】文章讲述了作者对一位年老女士强烈反对在村里子修建小路的迷惑。女士讲述了发生在灌木林的感人爱情故事，这使作者深深感动，同时也谴责了战争给人们生活带来的影响。

75. B 词义推测题。根据第一段第二句“Why was this old woman making such a com plaint about our way to deal with an old bush which was of no use to anybody?” 可知这位女士对于计划的抱怨之情，故此处表示她给当地报纸写了信，甚至给全国性的报纸也写了，对拟将在她们村子里修建小路的方案表示抗议，即defend against“对……抗议” 正确。

76. C 细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句“The village was quite a distant and dangerous place because of the traffic especially for old people and children, their safety was more important to me than an old woman?s whims (怪念头)” 可知这个村里交通不便，特别是对老人和孩子来说，尤其危险，故C项正确。

77. C 推理判断题。根据倒数第四段可知“我意识到我可能涉入太深了” ，即作者被这个故事感动了，无法走出，即C项正确。

78. B 推理判断题。根据倒数第三段最后一句中“I c ould have had everything I wanted in life,

a lovely man, health and a future to look forwards to” 可推断Mary Smith后悔了，她本可以拥有生命里所要的一切，一个值得爱的男人、健康的身体和充满梦想的未来，即B项正确。

79. C 主旨大意题。这是一篇美女欣赏“林中漫步” ，看似很平淡，却透露出作者对这位

女士讲述故事的深深感动，战争使得多少家庭妻离子散，使得多少爱人不再相见，故C项正确。

80. D 推理判断题。作者以这位女士讲述事情的发展过程来组织文章，故D项正确。

FABEG

第二句：去掉invited之前的was

第二节：give前加to

第三句：interested→ interesting

第五句：with→ in

第六句：slow→ slowly

第七句：don’t→ didn’t

第九句：his→ my

第十句：question→ questions

最后一句：until→if

speaking→ spoken

解析：

第二句：去掉invited之前的was我们学校邀请了一位外教。不能用被动语态。

第二节：give前加to invite sb. to do sth. 邀请某人做某事。

第三句：interested→ interesting我们觉得他上的课非常有趣。表达某物或某件事本身令人感兴趣的、有趣的；要用interesting

第五句：with→ in老师用简单容易的英语和我们自由地交谈。表达用某种语言交流，要用in English.

第六句：slow→ slowly他说得很慢。用副词slowly来修饰动词speak.

第七句：don’t→ didn’t该段都是用动词的一般过去时，根据该句中的repeated可知此处应该是didn’t.

第九句：his→ my让我高兴的是，老师讲的所有的东西我都懂了。这件事是让我高兴，所以要用to my joy

第十句：question→ questions我也能用英语提问问题了。question是一个可数名词，此处应该用复数形式。

最后一句：until→if我确信只要我坚持练习的话。应该是if引导的条件状语从句。speaking→ spoken英语口语spoken English

56. Because the company conducted a new process. /Because a new process was put in place. /Because there was a new purchase process.

57. Buy/Purchase/Get/Obtain/Attain/Acquire

58. He had to call someone to get the accessory.

59. Funny/Comical/Bad/Ridiculous/Uncomfortable/Disappointing

60. I would complain to the company about its/their bad service and wouldn?t go shopping there any more.

解析：

[语篇解读]我在一家商店订购了一件商品，到了日子我满怀喜悦的心情去取货，可是没想的事情发生了。因为程序的原因我开始了一次次漫长的取货等待再取货再等待的过程。

56. Because the company conducted a new process. /Because a new process was put in place. /Because there was a new purchase process. 根据第一段中的because of a new process that had just been put in place可知是因为商店推出了一套新的购物流程让作者的购物变得困难了。

57. Buy/Purchase/Get/Obtain/Attain/Acquire两周后我知道那件商品的附件来了，于是决定去商店先“买回、得到、获得” 那件附件。

58. He had to call someone to get the accessory.根据第三段中的The only way I was told to get what I needed was to call someone and they could help.可知作者需要先和某个人打电话才能得到附件。

59. Funny/Comical/Bad/Ridiculous/Uncomfortable/Disappointing根据文章最后一个单词作者对这次经历的总结：comical可知作者认为这是：滑稽可笑的、十分糟糕的、让人很不舒服。

60. I would complain to the company about its/their bad service and wouldn?t go shopping there any more.这是一道自由开放回答的问题，一般人有这样的遭遇肯定会选择投诉。

Dear Editor,

I?m Wang Ping. I?m writing to offer your newspaper an article Trying to Save Both f or Natural Resource and the Environment.

Saving is very important because natural resources in our world may run out one day, so we should save some for our offspring. Meanwhile, saving can help us avoid producing waste, which will make our homeland more beautiful. As students, we should make our contributions. For example, we can recycle our text books or use both sides of our exercise-books. In this way more trees would be saved. What?s more, we Chinese have a good tradition of saving and regard wasting a s a shame, so we call for everybody?s action to save what we can to make our beautiful life last forever.

Best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Wang Pang

2015年高考英语模拟题(全国卷)

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